Paramount World (1955)

Paramount World 39 Overseas Paramounteers ought not to lose any more time bef¬ ore entering the Carol Ohmart contest, to cop that top prize of a trip to y ouknowwher e (mELOITE The fairytale romance of the "Oountry Girl" from Philadelphia, who will soon become a Princess, has exhibitors all agog, and they are scrambling for Grace Kelly irepeats. Jake Neil, Head Booker, has clev¬ erly displayed posters for those wonder¬ ful features on v'hich she has climbed to fame, namely REAR WINDOW, TCKO-RI, THE COUNTRY GIRL, and TO CATCH A THIEF. Bookings are rising to "flood stage" on the two— reel musical JTIDNIGHT SERENADE, starring Peggy Lee who won the Audience Poll as the most outstanding newcomer The Pecan Grove was the scene of a love¬ ly party recently, when Paramounteers all aglow in their finery, laid down their work and worries, and resolved to have a taste of fun -this, they had with every course — Ann Rivenbark’s husband is home after years in Korea a second honeymoon is now in progress Auditors are like the wind, you never know when one will " blow" in, or with what velocity, but the recent arrival of Mr. McGettigan, was like a zephyr — The ladies of the office, gave a " get accjuainted " luncheon recently, honor -» ing Mrs, Lawrence Terrell, wife of our Branch Manager. Spring flowers, in a bowl V'hich bore the Paramount trademark (idea of Mildred Hoover) formed the cen¬ terpiece, The honoree was presented a lovely corsage and gift "Carolina Sport Champs" (basketball), new sports reel filmed at North Carolina State, will have its premiere at Raleigh in the near future, and all prints available are being booked-— In the SWEEPSTAKE drive, Jerry Helms has obtained 60 fea¬ tures and E50 shorts dates from the Car¬ olina Booking Service, and quoting him "that ain't nothing yet, I’m really go¬ ing places and doing things", Lucy McGrlff ATTEKTION BARCELONA We have Just received from Barcelona what is undoubtedly one of the four or five most magnificent and comprehensive showmanship caohpalgns ever devised by a Paramounteer anywhere. It is for SABRINA, and it is in five mass¬ ive volvimes. If there is a facet of showmanship that was not utilized by Publicity Manager Cecilia Mantua, we have yet to hear of it. The campaign will be given fitting display in next month's Paramount World. THE PARAMOUNT PERISCOPE For almost 20 years Paramount News has been the sole newsreel deposited twice weeklr in the U.S, National Archives in Washington. It has thus become the chief historic link between today ahd the fabulous past. Mr. James Cummings is the archi¬ vist entrusted with this vital pre¬ servation of film records via the newsreel documentation, and he is ateadily engaged in the work of re¬ printing each and every newsreel, since such documentation began, on safety stock for its better preser¬ vation as a record, Paramoimteers in general should be proud of the selection of our newsreel as the one best fitted, by virtue of editorial content, covei>age of events, and fairness of editring to be the pictorial reference source for future generations. A good idea that is not shared with others will gradually fade away and bear no fruit, but when it is shared it lives forever because it is passed on from one person to another and grows as it goes. Lowell Fillmore SALESMAN G. G 0 B E L . If you missed seeing Paramount star George Gobel in his sketch of a salesman on TV a few nights back, you missed his definition of a salesman. Said George; "A salesman is a fellow with a smile on his face, a shine on his shoes and a lousy territ¬ ory." The splendid international work done by Paramount's Audible Infor¬ mation Service (spearheaded by Paul Ackerman, Joan Babbage and Armand Cardea), continues apace. There's a fine compliment to hand from Radio Redifusion, Singapore, concerning the highly informative William Perlberg interview. Manager H, Donald Hunter reports from Trinidad that the local use of these broadcasts reaches all parts of the Caribbean area. Manager Kurt Troupp reports that twice during January the Finnish THE PLAQUE. On earlier pages we showed pict¬ ures of the presentation of the Screen Producers Guild Milestone Award to Cecil B, DeMille. But in no instance can you actually see what the plaque itself looks like. Here it is. The inscription: The Screen Producers Guild piresents to Mr. Cecil B, DeMille The Wreath of Honor For his Historic Contributions to the American Motion Picture, January 22, 1956, Broadcasting Corporation, Helsinki, used quarter-hour Paramount record¬ ings. And getting back to Singapx>re again, a report on the Alfred Hitc)>cock. interview claimed it was so realistic, listeners thought the di¬ rector was actually in the Singapore broadcasting studio. Man must work. That is certain as the sun. But he may work grudgingly or he may work gratefully; he may work as a man or he may work as a machine. There is no work so rude that he may not exalt it; no work so impassive that he may not breathe a soul into it; no work so dull that he may not enliven it, Henry Giles Bob Hop>e is one of the most steadfast advocates of VistaVision in the entire Paramount organization. He knows what it did for him in THE SEVEN LITTLE FOYS and THAT CERTAIN FEELING. Now that he is making "The Iron Pett¬ icoat" in VistaVision in England, with Kathartne Hepburn as co-star, and J, Arthur Rank as a producer, he loses no opportunity to plug the system. As he did, for instance, on no less than three occasions on his TV show from London, telecast Feb, 7th, VISTA W/ISION